Every rebel is, with us, more or less a soldier who has missed his vocation, a being made for a heroic life ... The European race is a race of masters and soldiers. If you reduce this noble race to the work in a slave's prison like Negroes or Chinamen, it will rebel.

Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.

Muslims are the first victims of Islam. To liberate a Muslim from his religion is the best service that one can render him!

Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation.

The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God.

The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul."

In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.